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How I Made $506 Blogging In July 2007

Thanks To June/July Sponsors

July 18th, 2007 · 9 Comments

Well, I’m back! After enjoying 8 days away from the UK I’m back and ready to carry on with my projects. I was pretty poorly organised before I left and thus only left you guys with 1 video post during the week - thus I need to pick up the activity a bit around here even though RSS stats stayed the same at a high of 560 subscribers.

In this fairly short post, I just wanted to give a big shout of thanks out to my sponsors. This is something that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time, but have never got round to doing, even though my sponsors are the running blood of this blog. As usual, my Text Link Ads spots are fully booked up currently, but there is one spot that is freeing up next week, so make sure you keep watching this page if you want to get your link in before it becomes booked up again.

So, firstly many thanks out to my TLA Advertisers:

On top of these regulars, private advertising is becoming more and more popular here on Blogtrepreneur and now accounts for well over 50% of my online earnings. So far, 2 image ads have been purchased - so thanks should be given to:

1) Collis and the gang from Freelance Switch - This blog on Freelance Employment Advice has become one of the fastest growing blogs around (read this article on their immediate success and a cool graph). I’ve known Collis ever since he purchased a paid review on this blog, and since then have kept in touch with him and have seen the fame he’s managed to garner. Congratulations Collis and Cyan and here’s to the future of FSW! P.S. If you’re a freelancer, then checkout the new Freelancer Survey and for passive incomists, checkout Collis’ new subsite!

2) Brian Aldrich from ThePrizeBlog - I’ve known Brian for a fairly short time, but he’s always been a frequent commenter here on Blogtrepreneur. His site is a little more different from the rest. It shows daily prizes and competitions and already has a healthy subscribership. At the moment he’s got a 6 Days Prize Contest going on, so checkout the prizes and enter for your chance to win! Thanks for advertising here Brian.

As well as the image ads, we’ve also had text ads and inline post ads purchased. So a quick “thankyou” to:

- Melissa from NationalPayDay who specializes in cash advance and payday loans. She bought a 6 month text link which is featured in the Sponsors section in the sidebar.
- Joely from Intermedia who has 7 inline text links scattered throughout various posts. He has sites on outlook exchange services.

Summer Sale - 50% Off Ads!

Remember though, that the Summer Sale on Advertising, where you can get 50% off any package for as long as you want, is ending at the end of July. So that means, get your links and image ads in to me quickly (contact me first) to take advantage of this great deal from a top-ranked PR5 blog. I’ve got a few paid reviews ready to be written and you can have your place here too!

So, thanks to the above sponsors who have given me the encouragement to keep on blogging, but most importantly, thanks to you guys. It was so nice coming back from holiday to have an email inbox full of your comments on loads of posts (thanks for moderating Ray) and to have more questions and requests from my readers. Now I know why people go on so much about social networking.

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9 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Graham Lutz // Jul 19, 2007 at 1:12 pm

    …wouldn’t a big list of sponsors be nice…I guess i can’t complain, I just started my blog on monday.

  • 2 Ron // Jul 19, 2007 at 2:14 pm

    Hi Adnan, caught your site and thought I might see if you were looking to expand your earning potential? We do offer text ads and have one of the largest networks in the market. I know you’re maxed out, but if you used us it would leverage more possible advertisers, providing more money in your pocket.

    I think your site would do well with us as well.

    let me know if you have any questions.

  • 3 Alex Choo // Jul 19, 2007 at 3:33 pm

    Hi Adam,

    Congrats on your business with TLA.

    I’m the developer of WP Text Ads, a free WordPress plugin that lets you sell ads directly to advertisers. This way, they pay no commissions and get paid instantly.

    WP Text Ads lets you sell ads for the whole blog, home page, or per-post. These options make it more affordable for advertisers to buy ads at your blog.

    I hope you’ll consider this plugin as an alternative to TLA :)

    Thanks!

    Alex
    http://www.wptextads.com
    http://www.wptextads.com/marketplace
    http://www.wptextads.com/blog

  • 4 adnan // Jul 19, 2007 at 7:46 pm

    Lol keep going Graham. By the way, email me because I have a few tips about your blog.

    Hi Ron - please can you email me too through my contact form. I think I am maxed out at the moment and more links would make my blog too saturated, but I’m interested for the future. Thanks for dropping by.

    And finally Alex (btw my name’s Adnan!) ;)
    I’ve heard of WP Ads, but I don’t think that the price is justified and also I don’t think my blog has sufficient traffic at the moment to make me as many sales as TLA does. Also they’ve been very good to me, so it would be bad to take my business away from them.

    But thanks for informing me.

  • 5 Chris // Jul 20, 2007 at 5:05 am

    Good to hear you are doing so well with TLA. I just got approved today after being denied the first time. So I’m looking forward to hopefully gaining some extra revenue from it. Keep up the good work!

  • 6 adnan // Jul 20, 2007 at 9:32 am

    Thanks Chris. TLA are a bit funny about approving blogs, probably because now they’ve got so many in their database. Good luck and apparently in-post ads are doing very well for some people - maybe they’ll work well for you!

    And check your email ;)

  • 7 AIS by Sarah » WP Text Ads // Jul 20, 2007 at 10:21 am

    [...] removed it from the moderation queue. Then last night I noticed the same person had commented on Blogtrepreneur. Adnan had written a post thanking his TLA Sponsors, along with other sponsors he’d sold [...]

  • 8 mikeytran // Jul 22, 2007 at 5:08 am

    another point, funny how he “appraised” your site for 85k and offered you 100k… but he still need you to send him more “details” about your site… lol

  • 9 adnan // Jul 23, 2007 at 11:58 am

    Lol I know - you can smell a scammer from a mile off eh mikey!

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